Friends of Forks of the Roads Society, Inc’s (FRSI) Coordinator, Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley will unveil and dedicate a copy of FRSI’s new Forks of the Road Traveling Exhibition’s America’s Domestic “Slave” Trading Routes Map, professionally and colorfully printed on a 4 by 6 feet sign.

The map sign is installed on FRSI’s vacant lot at 226 St. Catherine Street at the corner of St. Catherine and Junkins Streets, about a mile east of downtown Natchez, Mississippi.

 

It’s fitting and most appropriate that this historic second largest deep southwest enslavement hub of America’s internal “slave” trading from the upper old mid and eastern seaboard south to the lower southwest, become an annual Thanksgiving Day pilgrimage remembrance site.

 

It’s most meaningful and proper to coordinate a Forks of Road annual Thanksgiving Day pilgrimage remembrance in solidarity with America’s Indigenous Nations’ Unthanksgiving Sunrise Ceremonies, commemorating the “survival of Native American people following the settlement of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere!”

 

As a result, both African and Indigenous nations suffered and endured great tragedies for which the effects and affects are still lingering among descendants in the Americas and around the world this Thanksgiving!

 

Both African and Indigenous nations had many similar cultural practices before and after Columbus lost the way to the land called the Americas. Many “Indian” nations adopted runaway Africans and made alliances against common oppressors.

 

The internal America’s “slave” trading routes map shows the probable sea, rivers, streams, “Native Americans and animal trails, stagecoach and mail roads enslaved and free blacks were forced shipped on and walked over the Overground Railroad Passages of Sorrow to the Forks of Road and beyond.

 

In Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee professional dealers, traffickers and speculators by hook, crook and sometimes outright kidnapping, tore apart mothers, fathers, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, babies, young children, relations and friends already enslaved or were so-called free people in the upper south. They forced-brought them to the new lower south markets such as the Forks of the Road to be sold into chattel enslavement, yet again. Partly the reason Blacks live in southwestern U. S. today!

 

All comers, regardless of racial types, cultures, religions, Spiritual Traditions, political beliefs, educational, economical, social and male/female backgrounds are solicited to:

 

TAKE A BRIEF THANKSGIVING DAY TIME OUT AND COME TO THE UNVEILING AND DEDICATING OF THE INTERNAL AMERICAN “SLAVE” ROUTES MAP AT 7:30 A. M. TO GIVE THANKS TO THE PEOPLE OF YESTERDAY WHO MADE THE OPPORTUNITIES POSSIBLE FOR THOSE OF US LIVING TODAY!

 

Can’t come to Forks of Road, go to the cemetery and give thanks! Set a plate of food and empty chair at eating table!

Ser Seshsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley